Have been thinking about this one for a while now, and have finally reached a decision. I think it is time to end RantingJane, and indeed all interaction I have with the Blogging World generally. I started this at a point when everything was very undecided as regards my future and felt like attaching myself to a new version of 'reality' for a while - the blog has had the added bonus that I've been able to keep in touch with people without the need for those ghastly group emails. I considered the suggestion of a 'blogliday' ['Hovis', you created an awesome word today] but no, I need to make a clean break.
So there we go. HOWEVER... I will allow my readers to decide the fate of RantingJane. If I receive enough comments or emails that suggest you actually read the damn thing and it brightens up the occasional seriously dull day, I'll consider popping back from time to time for the odd rant.
To end, I thought I'd mention a few things that I've been thinking about recently, or have observed generally.
- did you know lemon trees had thorns? Well, dammit, they do. Cursedly painful ones they are as well. Ow.
- the other day, I saw somebody wearing what is essentially a tanktop with a hood. Who the hell designed this? Why? Was it a joke that was taken seriously?
- compulsory reading for everyone should include: 'Fear of Freedom' by
Fromm, 'Super-Cannes' by J G Ballard, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' by D H Lawrence, 'Journey by Moonlight' by Antal Szerb, and, of course, 'Hamlet' by - and if you don't know you should really just go and kill yourself now, you are worthless - Shakespeare. And when I say 'read', I mean read. Not this passive skimming of words that so many have replaced reading with. Read, understand, appreciate, learn, change.
- why do I eat so much chocolate when it always makes me ill?
- in the immortal words of Yosser Hughes, 'gi'us a job'.
Well - thank you all for reading. Hopefully this has offered a flicker of amusement on occasion. If any of you ever feel in need of a good rant, I'm available for personal visits and will complain about any subject you name - in exchange for a few shots of vodka and a Snickers. What a bargain.
So there we go. HOWEVER... I will allow my readers to decide the fate of RantingJane. If I receive enough comments or emails that suggest you actually read the damn thing and it brightens up the occasional seriously dull day, I'll consider popping back from time to time for the odd rant.
To end, I thought I'd mention a few things that I've been thinking about recently, or have observed generally.
- did you know lemon trees had thorns? Well, dammit, they do. Cursedly painful ones they are as well. Ow.
- the other day, I saw somebody wearing what is essentially a tanktop with a hood. Who the hell designed this? Why? Was it a joke that was taken seriously?
- compulsory reading for everyone should include: 'Fear of Freedom' by
Fromm, 'Super-Cannes' by J G Ballard, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' by D H Lawrence, 'Journey by Moonlight' by Antal Szerb, and, of course, 'Hamlet' by - and if you don't know you should really just go and kill yourself now, you are worthless - Shakespeare. And when I say 'read', I mean read. Not this passive skimming of words that so many have replaced reading with. Read, understand, appreciate, learn, change.- why do I eat so much chocolate when it always makes me ill?
- in the immortal words of Yosser Hughes, 'gi'us a job'.
Well - thank you all for reading. Hopefully this has offered a flicker of amusement on occasion. If any of you ever feel in need of a good rant, I'm available for personal visits and will complain about any subject you name - in exchange for a few shots of vodka and a Snickers. What a bargain.
4 comments:
Say it ain't so, Janey! Expect a lengthy, albeit rambling, post tomorrow from yours truly.
NO!!!!! iwill be very sad if ranting jane leaves blogdom... it's what i do when i dont feel like studying!!!! PLUS, you're leaving all other aspects of cyber-connectivity like myspace and i assume facebook... sick man, sick. what else do you do to waste time! OH and HAMLET SUCKS (but mostly because i spent an entire semester on the stupid play with a crazy crazy prof!)
why are you doing this? why pull out from facebook, myspace, too?
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